Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Don’t have to be cool.

Don’t have to be cool.

There are a lot of odd things that can happen when you’re running on about two or three hours of sleep a night, which often happens at FUDCon as well as in campaigns for political office. Some of them can end up on video, such as mistakenly saying the word “Core” when you meant — well, decidedly NOT that. Others, mercifully, do not, such as surprisingly sober (yet ill-advised and achingly unsoulful) karaoke renditions of “Kiss.” Hence the necessity in political campaigns for a horde of minders.

And the next thing I know, someone’s shaking me awake as the convoy pulls into Grand Rapids….